Is UCONN Bad for Women’s Basketball? You know what I’m not watching right now, even though I love sports and hail from the otherwise unnoteworthy state of Connecticut? That’s right, I just cannot bring myself to watching the women’s NCAA basketball championship, a certain victory for the University of Connecticut and yet one of the more […]
Is UCONN Bad for Women’s Basketball?
Is UCONN Bad for Women’s Basketball? You know what I’m not watching right now, even though I love sports and hail from the otherwise unnoteworthy state of Connecticut? That’s right, I just cannot bring myself to watching the women’s NCAA basketball championship, a certain victory for the University of Connecticut and yet one of the more […]
Your Kid Doesn’t Need a Damn Cellphone
Your Kid Doesn’t Need A Damn Cellphone I almost always laugh at the response I get when I tell people I am an only child. Folks usually just give me one top-to-bottom glance and suggest in a nonchalant voice, “Huh, I should have figured.” What is it that marks me so obviously as the byproduct […]
Your Kid Doesn’t Need a Damn Cellphone
Your Kid Doesn’t Need A Damn Cellphone I almost always laugh at the response I get when I tell people I am an only child. Folks usually just give me one top-to-bottom glance and suggest in a nonchalant voice, “Huh, I should have figured.” What is it that marks me so obviously as the byproduct […]
The Road Less Travelled, My Ass…
Made All the Difference, My Ass Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. We all know the Robert Frost poem, so much so that I didn’t even feel particularly compelled to cite the author or the title above. You don’t […]
The Road Less Travelled, My Ass…
Made All the Difference, My Ass Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. We all know the Robert Frost poem, so much so that I didn’t even feel particularly compelled to cite the author or the title above. You don’t […]
A TOUGH PILL TO SWALLOW
A Tough Pill to Swallow This may or may not be a shock to many of you, but one of my best friends is a drug dealer. No, he does not have a meth lab or marijuana grow room down in his basement, at least not that I know of. No, he does not sit […]
A TOUGH PILL TO SWALLOW
A Tough Pill to Swallow This may or may not be a shock to many of you, but one of my best friends is a drug dealer. No, he does not have a meth lab or marijuana grow room down in his basement, at least not that I know of. No, he does not sit […]
I Am Not A Role Model
I Am Not A Role Model Believe it or not, it was 1993 when Charles Barkley uttered those infamous words, “I am not a role model. Just because I dunk a basketball doesn’t mean I should raise your kids.” Ironically, this defining quote was part of his Nike commercial, an ad selling shoes to young […]
How Dr. Seuss Killed my Childhood
Dr. Seuss was a genius, you’ll hear that a lot, But write just for children he surely did not. His birthday we know was sometime last week, So at his words and his life we should take a peek. Even adults can find some truth in his rhymes And his message was often ahead of […]